Hare Krishna!
A few information more about the subject;
The medicines are sold over the counter with no mention on the label of
these ingredients, which is illegal.
"Ayurvedic medicines have their own way of working and allopathic medicines
work differently. Their combination can ruin the body," Dr Preeti Chhabra,
an ayurvedic doctor.
Moreover, cosmetics like kajal, lipstick, shampoos, talcum powder and hair
colour are adulterated with heavy metals like lead, arsenic, cobalt and
nickel. Toothpaste Vicco and Dabur Red were found to be adulterated with
tobacco or nicotine, which can lead to cancer.
******************************************************
For a majority of people, food adulteration is often  linked with the
impurities found in grains and to the food sold through the public
distribution system (PDS). It is a well established fact that even people
with Below Poverty Line (BPL) cards, who are entitled to buy food through
the PDS, avoid buying items like rice, if they can afford it, as it is
sometimes infested with insects and stones.
For those of us, who buy our daily groceries from retail stores, the
packaged food has the psychological comfort of being clean. But that is not
always the case. Consumers are often not aware of the kind of adulteration
that is present in pre-packaged food and food that is categorised as
'loose'. That is, food that is sold without any branding or packaging.
Says Y G Muralidhar, a consumer rights activist, "Most people tend to think
of adulteration as contaminant in food. But any food that is at a sub
standard level, that is below the standards set, but not necessarily harmful
or below the nutritional value promised is adulteration,"
Practically, all items sold independently, without any branding is subject
to some level of adulteration and not with something outrightly harmful, but
falling short of the standards all the same. Ghee and butter is adulterated
with margarine, potato starch and vanaspathi. Edible oils are mixed with
castor oil and argemone (prickly poppy) oil, sugar with chalk powder and
honey with sugar syrup.
Colouring is another common phenomenon with hotel foods, especially North
Indian dishes and roadside foods like Gobi Manchurian. Metanil yellow, a
food colour is added to parboiled rice, dal, and turmeric. Chemicals are
added to seedless dates to make them soft.
Even a common South Indian household item like jaggery is not spared. "I
never realised that jaggery in its pure form is almost black in colour. It
was only after a cook pointed out that it is full of chemicals, that I
realised that the golden yellow is not its actual colour." says Jyothi, a
teacher who found a cook to make jaggery without the additives.
Jaggery is prepared using additives like sodium bicarbonate, sodium
hydrosulfite and sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate. In addition, organic
additives like castor and coconut oil are used to get the light golden
yellow colour and crystalline texture of jaggery.
Chilli powder containing the illegal food dye - an ongoing problem of
processed foodstuffs containing a colouring called Sudan-I (which was not
found in the Surrey curry survey). Sudan-I is an industrial dye designed to
give a red color to solvents, waxes, shoe polish and floor polishes. Now
this really IS an illegal dye in foodstuffs in any country in the world and
has proven carcinogenic properties.
Unfortunately and, of course, illegally, 3 Indian spice merchants used
Sudan-I to give their chilli powder an extra deep red color. That chili
powder was then used, unknowingly, by a host of manufacturers to make some
of their products.
Most of us will be unable to detect this contamination and even if we do,
there is nothing much we usually do apart from avoiding the store or
complaining to the store owner.
The other option is lodge a complaint with the Health Department of the
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) or the Public Health Institute,
located at K R Circle.
****************************************************8
Few links with the articles
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article517420.ece
http://www.boloji.com/health/articles/01001.htm
Law against adulteration;
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/under-new-law-life-imprisonment-for-food-a
d/6
08835/
http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pesticides-and-t
oxi
ns/food-policy/food-standards/food-adulteration
*************************************************************
So far about Indian goods, probably you can find allot of more. But that's
not worse. 'Goods' from China are more 'deadly'. People literarily dying,
from Chinese foods. Pets are dying too from Chinese pet food. Even Chinese
medicine is too often deadly. You can even die just by brushing teeth with
their toothpaste.
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2007/06/poisoned_toothpaste_medicine_f.html
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2007/05/conterfeit_food_simply_profita_1.html
*********************************************
Some coments of devotees;
We need to spread this awareness among the ISKCON devotees how Indian
produced products such as spices, and ghee are quite deadly. Indian
producers have
lost all their morals. They are only after money, not caring how many people
die or contact incurable diseases from their adulterated products. Everyday
here in India, we see on the TV lots news on the adulterated milk, ghee etc.
About 70% of milk you get in the urban areas are adulterated with
detergents, urea's etc. Our Krishna Balaram temple have stopped using ghee
and paneers in all their preparations.
When you are in India, you eat anywhere at your own risk.
thanks,
********************************************
Do you that about 25% of turmeric powder is actually wood-dust, which are
mixed together by the unscrupulous manufactures.
Wood dust is better. Worse they mix dried and powdered donkey stool, since
it is yellow in colour and mixes well with the turmeric powder. They mix
papaya seeds with black peeper, Urea (fertilizer) diluted in water with
milk. Now days there is a synthetic milk, synthetic paneer, curd etc. Non
Veg Ghee packed as pure ghee.
The only way to avoid all these is Varnashram and self sufficient
communities.
******************************************
To summarize; it is best to avoid all powdered spices from India; I don't
have much information about other countries. Certain imported exotic fruit
and vegetables like Karela too, are pretty deadly, sprayed with and (or)
injected with
anti fungi chemicals, etc. Avoid all Chinese foods and medicine if you are
not completely sure that is genuine. And the most important, make your own
contribution for self sufficiency, for our farm communities, and grow your
own food as far possible. Soon or later it will happen that we 'have' to
adopt a simpler life and depend on food we produce ourselves, to save our
sanity for chanting Hare Krihna
Thank you, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!
A few information more about the subject;
The medicines are sold over the counter with no mention on the label of
these ingredients, which is illegal.
"Ayurvedic medicines have their own way of working and allopathic medicines
work differently. Their combination can ruin the body," Dr Preeti Chhabra,
an ayurvedic doctor.
Moreover, cosmetics like kajal, lipstick, shampoos, talcum powder and hair
colour are adulterated with heavy metals like lead, arsenic, cobalt and
nickel. Toothpaste Vicco and Dabur Red were found to be adulterated with
tobacco or nicotine, which can lead to cancer.
******************************************************
For a majority of people, food adulteration is often  linked with the
impurities found in grains and to the food sold through the public
distribution system (PDS). It is a well established fact that even people
with Below Poverty Line (BPL) cards, who are entitled to buy food through
the PDS, avoid buying items like rice, if they can afford it, as it is
sometimes infested with insects and stones.
For those of us, who buy our daily groceries from retail stores, the
packaged food has the psychological comfort of being clean. But that is not
always the case. Consumers are often not aware of the kind of adulteration
that is present in pre-packaged food and food that is categorised as
'loose'. That is, food that is sold without any branding or packaging.
Says Y G Muralidhar, a consumer rights activist, "Most people tend to think
of adulteration as contaminant in food. But any food that is at a sub
standard level, that is below the standards set, but not necessarily harmful
or below the nutritional value promised is adulteration,"
Practically, all items sold independently, without any branding is subject
to some level of adulteration and not with something outrightly harmful, but
falling short of the standards all the same. Ghee and butter is adulterated
with margarine, potato starch and vanaspathi. Edible oils are mixed with
castor oil and argemone (prickly poppy) oil, sugar with chalk powder and
honey with sugar syrup.
Colouring is another common phenomenon with hotel foods, especially North
Indian dishes and roadside foods like Gobi Manchurian. Metanil yellow, a
food colour is added to parboiled rice, dal, and turmeric. Chemicals are
added to seedless dates to make them soft.
Even a common South Indian household item like jaggery is not spared. "I
never realised that jaggery in its pure form is almost black in colour. It
was only after a cook pointed out that it is full of chemicals, that I
realised that the golden yellow is not its actual colour." says Jyothi, a
teacher who found a cook to make jaggery without the additives.
Jaggery is prepared using additives like sodium bicarbonate, sodium
hydrosulfite and sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate. In addition, organic
additives like castor and coconut oil are used to get the light golden
yellow colour and crystalline texture of jaggery.
Chilli powder containing the illegal food dye - an ongoing problem of
processed foodstuffs containing a colouring called Sudan-I (which was not
found in the Surrey curry survey). Sudan-I is an industrial dye designed to
give a red color to solvents, waxes, shoe polish and floor polishes. Now
this really IS an illegal dye in foodstuffs in any country in the world and
has proven carcinogenic properties.
Unfortunately and, of course, illegally, 3 Indian spice merchants used
Sudan-I to give their chilli powder an extra deep red color. That chili
powder was then used, unknowingly, by a host of manufacturers to make some
of their products.
Most of us will be unable to detect this contamination and even if we do,
there is nothing much we usually do apart from avoiding the store or
complaining to the store owner.
The other option is lodge a complaint with the Health Department of the
Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) or the Public Health Institute,
located at K R Circle.
****************************************************8
Few links with the articles
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article517420.ece
http://www.boloji.com/health/articles/01001.htm
Law against adulteration;
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/under-new-law-life-imprisonment-for-food-a
d/6
08835/
http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pesticides-and-t
oxi
ns/food-policy/food-standards/food-adulteration
*************************************************************
So far about Indian goods, probably you can find allot of more. But that's
not worse. 'Goods' from China are more 'deadly'. People literarily dying,
from Chinese foods. Pets are dying too from Chinese pet food. Even Chinese
medicine is too often deadly. You can even die just by brushing teeth with
their toothpaste.
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2007/06/poisoned_toothpaste_medicine_f.html
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2007/05/conterfeit_food_simply_profita_1.html
*********************************************
Some coments of devotees;
We need to spread this awareness among the ISKCON devotees how Indian
produced products such as spices, and ghee are quite deadly. Indian
producers have
lost all their morals. They are only after money, not caring how many people
die or contact incurable diseases from their adulterated products. Everyday
here in India, we see on the TV lots news on the adulterated milk, ghee etc.
About 70% of milk you get in the urban areas are adulterated with
detergents, urea's etc. Our Krishna Balaram temple have stopped using ghee
and paneers in all their preparations.
When you are in India, you eat anywhere at your own risk.
thanks,
********************************************
Do you that about 25% of turmeric powder is actually wood-dust, which are
mixed together by the unscrupulous manufactures.
Wood dust is better. Worse they mix dried and powdered donkey stool, since
it is yellow in colour and mixes well with the turmeric powder. They mix
papaya seeds with black peeper, Urea (fertilizer) diluted in water with
milk. Now days there is a synthetic milk, synthetic paneer, curd etc. Non
Veg Ghee packed as pure ghee.
The only way to avoid all these is Varnashram and self sufficient
communities.
******************************************
To summarize; it is best to avoid all powdered spices from India; I don't
have much information about other countries. Certain imported exotic fruit
and vegetables like Karela too, are pretty deadly, sprayed with and (or)
injected with
anti fungi chemicals, etc. Avoid all Chinese foods and medicine if you are
not completely sure that is genuine. And the most important, make your own
contribution for self sufficiency, for our farm communities, and grow your
own food as far possible. Soon or later it will happen that we 'have' to
adopt a simpler life and depend on food we produce ourselves, to save our
sanity for chanting Hare Krihna
Thank you, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!
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